What Counts Poem by Edgar Albert Guest | Read by Simerjeet Singh

It's not money or power or fame that counts, writes Edgar Albert Guest, but the people who love us and the memories we create with them.

Our next piece in the Poetry That Inspires series is titled “What Counts”.

This poem is about the importance of the people in our lives. It's about the love that we have for those who are with us and those who have gone before. It's about how we need to cherish what we have and what we are doing in this life.

We hope you choose to look at the brighter side of things!

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What Counts Poem by Edgar Albert Guest

It isn't the money you're making,
it isn't the clothes you wear,
And it isn't the skill of your good right hand which makes folks really care.
It's the smile on your face and
the light of your eye and the burdens that you bear.

Most any old man can tell you, most any old man at all,
Who has lived through all sorts of weather, winter and summer and fall,
That riches and fame are shadows that dance on the garden wall.

It's how do you live and neighbor, how do you work and play,
It's how do you say 'good morning' to the people along the way,
And it's how do you face your troubles whenever your skies are gray.

It's you, from the dawn to nighttime; you when the day is fair,
You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair?
It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

You to the end of the journey,
kindly and brave and true,
The best and the worst of you gleaming in all that you say and do,
And the ting that counts isn't money,
or glory, or power, but YOU!

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